STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS
By Diamond Dallas Page

What’s up?

Hey Cutters

What’s up? For starters, I’m heading to my first Pay Per View in over two and a half years to face Raven in a Raven’s Rules Battle all over the building extravaganza. If you haven’t had a chance to catch any of what’s been playing on TNA Impact, go to diamonddallaspage.com and you’ll be able to see clips of me in the last four shows. It was easy for me to cut the promo about Raven backstabbing me while I was gone from the world of professional wrestling since it was a shoot. The anger is real. It was pretty easy for Raven to make a comeback as well. Wrestling is always best when it’s mixed with realism. Today, Raven and I have what I think is a healthy relationship which probably lets us lay it in a little stiffer in the ring, or out of the ring in this case.

Speaking of TNA, I haven’t had this much fun working in wrestling since 1998. All of the guys down there have a great attitude, tremendous work ethic, and everyone is trying their hardest to get his baby up and running and into a prime time spot. If that happens and Nash, Savage, Hall, and myself can help pop this territory and get these young kids a rub (and exposure with marquee names), all the better. One of the great things about going to TNA Impact for me is they let me use all the footage wherever go as long as its in a positive light, so that’s why you can see pretty much anything I do on diamonddallaspage.com, but it will also come in incredibly handy when I start promoting DDP’s YRG (Yoga for Regular Guys) the book and the infomercial. For more details on the book, check out the Yoga Guru section on my site.

We just finished shooting the pictures for the book and I have six regular guys from an 18 year old high school kid who just happens to be Cody Rhodes (Dusty’s son) to my 70 year old CEO, TED, who started doing YRG at the spry young age of 67. The other guys featured are a 45 year old major in the Army named Bruce Sennigkoch, a 32 year old four time Golden Glove boxer turned actor Andre Brooks, my 29 year old truck driver turned actor Allen Rackley, and my screenwriter and my writing partner in Live Life at 90% Marlon Ransom. Of course, each one of these guys is paired with one of the six hottest yoga babes on the planet. I’ll have a picture of each one of them popping up on the site in the next few weeks so you can check them out.

This past Saturday, my yoga partner and I, the Yoga Doc Dr. Craig Aron, actually took the entire Georgia Tech (rated #3 in the nation) basketball team through the workout. You can check out the photos on the site. Yoga Doc’s been teaching yoga to Georgia Tech basketball and volleyball teams, both male and female, for the past couple years, but we have only recently taken them through DDP’s YRG and they loved it.

So, what else? I went to see Toby Keith, one of my favorite country western singers on the planet (next to my boys in Trick Pony, of course), who rocked the house at the Anaheim Pond. It was great because all the guys in the band were huge fans. I took one of the yoga babes, Christy, and her girlfriend Carol. After the show, we sat in the bus with Toby and had a few shots of whiskey for us and beer for our horses. OK, we had some beer, too. I ended up getting home at about 5:30 in the morning. Toby is exactly like he seems, a regular down to earth guy who loves to work out and I plan to get him involved in DDP’s YRG.

Right now, I have my house decorated like Clark Griswald in Christmas Vacation. It’s an extravaganza. Santa Claus is everywhere. I hope you’re getting ready for a Happy Hanukkah, a Merry Christmas, a Happy Kwanzaa, and a Happy whatever other holiday you celebrate.

On a serious note, as you spend the holidays with your family take a moment to think about those who cannot be with their families as they serve in our armed forces on the other side of the planet. I want to take a moment to remember a new friend who I knew for too short a period of time. While I was in Iraq, I met another Falkinburg. The last names were spelled differently, but I connected with Sgt. Major Steve Faulkenberg. There are pictures of Rob Dibble and I with Steve as we held a plunger used to pack powder in cannons in the early 1900s . I not only remember Sgt. Major Steve Faulkenberg because of his last name, but I also remember him because Rob Dibble told me he thought he was a character straight out of the movie Full Metal Jacket. I remember asking him, “Sarge, why are we here? Why are so many of us in this country?” I’ll never forget what he said to me. Steve looked me straight in the eye and said to me, “Would you rather fight this war in your backyard or over here?” That hit me right between the eyes. I remember 9/11. My brother in law, Paul, was in Tower 2. He (thank god) made it out OK. The colonel then chimed in and said, “When we get this country stabilized and OPEC (who’s afraid to start operations there now) can come in, all these people who now have no money and no jobs will have the chance to have a real life and a real future.” Sgt. Major Faulkenberg fought bravely at the recent assault on Fallujah, but tragically was one of our casualties. I salute his memory. He is one of the many heroes I will remember from my visit to Iraq.

Finally, I hope you have a chance to catch the Pay Per View. If not, check your local listings to find TNA Impact on FoxSports.

Be Unstoppable, and live life at 90%

Diamond Dallas Page